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Dairy Farmers of America · 1 month ago

Accountant II

St. Louis Park, MN, 55416, United States

Full-time

Onsite

Mid Level

Dairy Farmers of America is a dairy marketing cooperative owned by more than 12,500 family farmers, and they are seeking an Accountant II to join their team in St. Louis Park, MN. This role involves maintaining and validating the integrity of financial results while ensuring compliance with accounting practices and company policies.

AgricultureDairyDietary SupplementsFood Processing

Responsibilities

Prepare monthly balance sheets, balance sheet account reconciliations, income statements, and profit and loss statements, providing timely and accurate accounting entries within the group or plant

Perform month-end close procedures, including preparation of journal entries, account reconciliations, and month-end financial packages/statements

Maintain financial reports, records, and general ledger accounts

Review and analyze financials, such as month-end income statement and balance sheet, looking for discrepancies and trends; investigate unusual or unexpected trends and implement corrective action

Participate and assist with the budgeting and forecasting processes and various supporting analysis

Posting monthly, quarterly and yearly accruals

Complete or assist with ad-hoc projects, data analysis requests, and management reporting for multiple levels of management

Collect, compile, verify, and analyze financial information and prepare financial reports and accounting statements so that management has accurate and timely information for making financial decisions. These reports may include profit and loss statements, balance sheets, depreciation statements, cash flow, debtor and creditor lists, repayment schedules, regulatory reports and filings

Lead small projects or components of larger accounting-related projects

Identify and recommend opportunities for process improvement within areas of responsibility

Responsible for Accounting, reporting, budgeting and analysis of: Central locations capital spending from new project set-up, monitoring and completion in partnership with Location Accountants and leaders

Central locations bank reconciliations including internal cash application research/resolutions and internal audit requests as well as external inquiries from bank partners and external auditors

Monthly expense management of broker and royalty expenses with accruals, reporting and payments as well as communicated impacts to internal stakeholders